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leaders still trying to process. >> i don't even know what to say. this is a bad dream. this is a bad dream. it is devastating for our parishioners , for longer than anybody in the city. >> amid the tragedy, people doing what we do best, coming together to serve. thank you for joining us. a violent smoke last night. we are talking about the first african methodist episcopal church which is been serving the community . this is not the news we wanted to wake up to this morning. >> certainly a lot of unanswered questions afternoon as the investigation continues. all firefighters are saying right now is they know where the fire started but not how or fifighrsy the rean ou wh sc

ong. it urs to get that fire under control. crews salvaging what they could from inside. framed pictures, flags and banners. the pastor says the inside has been completely gutted. >> it is devastating not only for our parishioners, but for the city. we have served and educated this community longer than anybody in the city, so this is going to be a great loss in terms of the physical location for this city and this time. >> the church is on the corner of 37th street and telegraph in oakland. they have been serving food to the neighborhood of three days a week for the past three years. it is the oldest african american church in the east bay and during segregation, it was the first school for minority children in the city. 73rd avenue in oakland. the

road to healing and recovery begins now and start with prayer . they have not released information on an official fundraiser or another way people can help the church, be forthcoming. no word if they will temporarily move their food ministry, but i can only imagine they want to keep that up to keep that sense of community going. >> it is always tragic but the people on the inside say it is about our community. our thoughts are with them. so joining us led now is pastor rodney smith of first african methodist episcopal church , or f.a.m.e. as how you know it. it is not lost on me, pastor, this happens during black history month. that has been central to so many historic moments from the historic lands. tell me how you

are feeling today. >> discharge was organized and founded in 1865. the current congregation moved here in 1954 . as i said earlier, we have served this community through education, through our feeding program. we are a family-based community centered church and so many people have come out to show love, respect, support, prayers, openness, resilience. this church is resilient and we will get up from this. >> churches are often seen as places where weddings happen, baptisms happen, family moments happen, funerals, but this church has been so central to the civil rights movement in the bay area. from that perspective, you have got to be feeling it today. >> i am devastated. you know, i come to this church and i drive through the gates and i go up the steps.

today when i went there, there were no steps. in fact, there was a hole in the roof, just to show you how devastating the fire was. this is just brick and mortar. no one was injured or died and that is the good thing. there is always hope and we are a church that believes in hope. the connection around the world stands strong as we continue to pray. we know better days are coming. >> we are your community station. will you please keep in touch with us and let us know how to spread the word about your organization? >> we will get the information in tomorrow and we will get that information out. thank you so much for your prayers. >> we appreciate you talking to us right now. we know you have a busy day ahead not only dealing with a physical loss, but a sense of

grief and trauma for the people who depended on this place as their sanctuary and safe space. pastor rodney smith there. all right. in another story, a difficult weekend, difficult start of the week, oakland. a power outage started with a fire yesterday at a pg&e substation. more than 54,000 in oakland lost electricity. the outage caused delays and a lot of problems, even as far as oakland airport. about 7800 of you there in oakland still don't have electricity, so check on your neighbor and make sure they are okay. the majority of the yardage is are at macarthur boulevard. at this point, we don't know when to tell you when electricity will be fully operational right there in that area. more support in oakland is pouring in for former oakland police chief leronne armstrong. in fact, today , it got deeper. the naacp and other groups gathered around city hall and said they are outraged. >> today we will show oakland

not only our voice matters, but our fight is strong and our fight is long and we won't stop . we can't stop until we get what we came for. >> they want him reinstated. mayor sheng thao fired armstrong last wednesday after he was accused of covering up an officer misconduct case. armstrong says he is appreciative of the support to get him reinstated. so, what is next in this story? we are told armstrong's legal team will initiate an appeals process this week. we also, again, reached out to mayor sheng thao's office and she responded with a statement through a spokesperson thing we have no additional comment and would refer you to her remarks from last wednesday. that is when the official firing announcement was made. not another word yet from her on that. 680 is back open ahead of

schedule. caltrans reopened the freeway. repairs began between koopman road and pleasanton. the other big transit project we are following, rock ridge and lafayette station shutdown friday for track repairs. our chopper spotted the crews out there working hard today and getting everything ready ahead of reopening. another powerful earthquake has struck turkey and syria, the same area hit by the massive and deadly earthquake two weeks ago. the sounds of those sirens all too common now for people traumatized by the quake. emergency crews rushed to yet another scene as the quake hit. this time it was a 6.4 shaker but followed by a really big aftershock.

no immediate reports of casualties. of course, we know it takes days to get that number. the death toll from the first one stanza nearly 45,000 people. coming home on this presidents' day, former president jimmy carter is in home hospice care in georgia at the age of 98. after heads time in office, the president is best known for his time serving habitat for humanity. we have all seen the photos and videos of him with a hammer and a paint brush. that work has had a direct impact on families right here in the bay area. in fact, our cameras were there when carter came to oakland with his wife, rosalynn, in 2018. they were here working ahoinlo our da lin went back to that oakland complexand talked with the families that worked

right alongside president carter. >> this is my room. the president walked in this room and he put this on the window. >> reporter: the homeowner still remembers the one hour she spent building her home with the president. >> i would hold this part and he would put it on with the screw right here. >> reporter: it was in october of 2013. they were constructing the window sill. harriet measured and cut the wood. she said she was nervous and excited at the same time. it was our first time meeting someone so powerful and famous. >> i said, "wow, i can't believe this person was in my house!" >> reporter: we interviewed her and the president back in 2013. >> it looks wonderful. it had a fairly modest cost, at least for this area. >> reporter: the president dedicated his time to the job. he wasn't here for a photo op. >> most people take photos and

everything, but he focused on work. >> it is hard to measure jimmy carter and rosalynn carter's contributions to habitat. >> reporter:t for humanity east bay silicon valley was working with the carter family that day. the family has been a supporter of habitat for about 40 years. >> i am very sad he will be leaving us, but what he is leaving us with is a lifetime of goodness and i think that it is up to us to take that goodness and go spread it around in the world a bit. >> the carter family can see how we take care and appreciate this gift. i say my house is a gift. >> take that goodness and spread it around a little bit. you are having on social media

your tributes with many highlighting his commitment to service. isn't it fascinating, he is less known for his presidency as he was for his community service? i invite you to share your thoughts, maybe even your memories with the hashtag #kpix. still to come, we meet siblings with a special sound. >> music is a huge part of my identity. >> i have met them and they are every bit the bright lights they appear in real le. how they are displaying black excellence through their craft and making music out in the community. we are about to go through weather whiplash. near 70 in some of our warmer spots and tomorrow everything changes. we will get windy, much c

welcome back, my friends. we are proud to celebrate black history month. our justin andrews met a bay area band, all of which are siblings, by the way, who show us what black excellence sounds like. >> reporter: in music, this is where the foundation lies. brings the rhythm to their

sound. >> the drums are the heartbeat. >> reporter: 15-year-old memphis dempsey. she has been playing for over a decade and remembers at church, she noticed something. >> i saw the drums and i was like, well, those are big and loud. i like that. >> reporter: she hasn't stopped since, but when the beat does >> someone xted . typical er. >> reporter: an inspiring i've every day. >> reporter: practically every hour. >> memphis brings joy and energy to the performances. >> reporter: this is memphis's older brother, matthias . he is a singer, artist, songwriter.

matthias is the guitar player and coupled with the drums, it gives the backbone to their sound. >> there is music when you are sad, music when you are happy, and it connects you emotionally . >> reporter: music moves their mind and abandons their malady. >> micaiah helped me tap into my creative side and she pushes me. >> reporter: micaiah brings a harmonic accompaniment. identity. s a huge part of er orientation. >> reporter: she plays the piano and helps with the maladies. micaiah and music never separated. at the beginning of last year, she never got -- she got sick. she was in and out of the hospital. music helped heal her. >> i was so grateful i at least had my piano and my siblings and my family around me. it

really taught me that even when i am not playing music, it can have a huge impact on me. >> reporter: together the three siblings make one sound. their band, melodious. melodious has been producing a texture of music for almost seven years, a texture your ears can literally feel. a sound that sits on the soul, a universal language. >> anybodysino matyo ground hol >> rep unrstanding ar for theybelisteng to hymns spel mus. >> you know, a lot of music we do has an r&b, gospel feel. >> reporter: and now they want that feeling and sound to be a

career. for months, they have been working on their debut album all on their own. >> i would rather not share this experience with anybody else, but sometimes i feel like i get ganged up on. i get attacked. >> reporter: using their god- given gifts, no matter where life takes these three individually -- >> we will always be making music together. >> reporter: music will always be their harmony. >> the grammys are calling, party of three! be sure to watch our special where we shine a light on black history trailblazers, those that have written black history and those that are still out there writing it. it starts at 4:00 p.m. thursday right here on cbs with an encore presentation at0 on our sister station. it is time to look at our

first alert forecast with meteorologist darren peck . you say weather whiplash? >> it is 70s out there and tomorrow, everything does a complete 180. there will be showers on-again, off-again, but it will be cold enough that we will likely see snow from tuesday night through friday. we will be in this for most of next week. it'll be like a holiday and it will catch people a lot offguard. this is how it starts. this is tomorrow in the wind begins this. that is a big change right there. that is tomorrow afternoon. gusty's bringing in cold air. the windchill will make it feel much colder. the strongest of the wind comes in tuesday afternoon but the advisory states through wednesday. we could have downed trees and localized power outages but the wider impact, the cold. here is today. we are

looking at a mid level of the atmosphere which gives us a visualization for how the temperature profile will change . deep shades of blue start to creep down and it mu maininmornings. afternoons, low the wind, it will feel colder. here comes the system that is responsible for all of this. it is coming down straight from the north. it does bring rain, but it doesn't bring a lot. the showers are spotty, separated, and few and far between. there is a chance for rain tuesday night or friday morning, but there is a lot of snow mixed in fairly low down to perhaps 1000 feet or lower. we will take this thursday into friday just to show you this system stays with us through friday. that looks a lot more widespread than it will be but it gives us an idea of when it

will come to an end, which is saturday. think about tuesday night through friday morning as a possibility for scattered showers. now in the sierra, we will get snow starting tuesday night. travel aside for today and the first part of tuesday, but tuesday night, snow becomes a bigger issue in the mountains. wednesday morning through friday, watch what happens. some of this snow starts to fill in. tuesday night through saturday morning, we can see a light dusting of snow down to 1500 feet. not the kind of snow that accumulates from this kind of impact, but snow on the ridgeline or 1500 feet high. snow for wednesday, thursday, into friday. that will catch a lot of people's attention. half a foot of snow on mount hamilton. we will have much more on this over the next few days. if any of these days require for alert status, we will designate those but right now,

it doesn't appear this will have as big of an impact as it will in the sierra where the snow will be far more impactful. wednesday through friday, chance of rain. we will clear out in the next one coming next week. all right, reed, back over to you . we are all one big global

as we learn of yet another

earthquake hitting turkey and syria, volunteers from all around the world are helping people affected by so many quakes. many of the helpers there say they were compelled to do something. >> we all are a big family and as a family, we have to support and help each other. as a family, we have to find some work, some help, and support each other. >> i am korean american. i know these turkish people helped americans when we were having difficulties during the war. so i ask, my friends, how can we help turkey? >> the resilience they have shown, the families we have met, we know they will get through this. we know they are strong enough. >> we are a family and don't you forget it. over the weekend, antony blinken

met with those helping out in the earthquake. we celebrat

before we go, catching a glimpse of one meteor is cool but this is a swirl of meteors. this video was captured in kansas and shows a group of meteors and stars hanging out and traveling across the sky

there. pretty cool. >> i think i saw them. did you see them? >> you have to squint. you can ♪ ♪ >> norah: tonight, the extraordinary new details about just how president joe biden may the surprised journey toward touring your grain, all shrouded under secrecy. tonight's top headlines. as air raid sirens blaring ukraine, president biden vows unwavering support. >> freedom is priceless. it's worth fighting for for as long as it takes. >> admirers are sending prayers and paying tribute to former president jimmy carter, who has entered hospice care. >> carter advisors told cbs news they expect the former president to remain tough until the end. >> norah: north korea launches to go ballistic missiles toward japan as kim jong un's sister issues a new threat.